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They Really Did It

The Supreme Court’s conservatives finally felt safe to do what they wanted to do.
Source: Abortion-rights and anti-abortion-rights activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court

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I remember the days when my fellow conservatives hated activist judges and fulminated against attempts to gain in the courts what could not be won at the ballot box; today, a new kind of “conservative” is cheering a radical unraveling of women’s rights.

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